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Jake VanderPlas

Jake VanderPlas is a long-time user and developer of the Python scientific stack. He currently works as an interdisciplinary research director at the University of Washington, conducts his own astronomy research, and spends time advising and consulting with local scientists from a wide range of fields.

Pivot tables are an incredibly handy tool for exploring tabular data. This excerpt from the Python Data Science Handbook (Early Release) shows how to use the elegant pivot table features in Pandas to slice and dice your data.